tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post7219654501225184966..comments2020-06-07T06:56:06.685-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon: More Questions Than Answers!Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-26078990328375989942011-05-08T06:26:19.220-03:002011-05-08T06:26:19.220-03:00... And I just remembered that Rory can sometimes ...... And I just remembered that Rory can sometimes keep the memories of Roman times out of his head, and sometimes not. But his Roman adventures didn&#39;t even happen in this timeline, so Rory shouldn&#39;t be able to remember any of that. Multiple incompatible timelines, I tell you.<br /><br />Let me pull another pointless guess out of my butt. The Timelord race is dead and gone, we know ... but I suspect Moffat will bring it back, not after its end, but at its very beginning. With all of the Doctor&#39;s interacting with humans, I wonder if he is unintentionally planting the seeds of the Time Lords into mankind, so that the Gallifreyan race will somehow spring from the human race. Donna Noble has got a lot of Time Lord in her, Amy&#39;s hypothetical child can regenerate, the Doctor&#39;s Daughter is out and about with complete Gallifreyan DNA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-55835991774636659572011-05-05T00:09:13.973-03:002011-05-05T00:09:13.973-03:00Amy is pregnant and not pregnant. If there are tw...Amy is pregnant and not pregnant. If there are two conflicting timelines being played out, and one leads to disaster, I could see the Doctor needing to put an end to one of them. That could include killing one version of himself. This could have something to do with making sure the Silents don&#39;t have a pilot, even an unwilling one.<br /><br />As the owner of multiple cats, I find that Simple Solution can take the piss out of anything, even better than Canton III. His laundry technique hasn&#39;t been thoroughly explored, however.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-87003911475735085982011-05-04T10:27:11.894-03:002011-05-04T10:27:11.894-03:00That would be fun!That would be fun!Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-20243043911817601362011-05-04T10:21:42.547-03:002011-05-04T10:21:42.547-03:00Since she&#39;s alive because Steven Moffat said &...Since she&#39;s alive because Steven Moffat said &quot;could we not kill her after all?&quot; and in last month&#39;s Doctor Who Magazine he talked about an idea for an episode where we catch up with various characters including Jack, River and her, I&#39;d say it&#39;s possible.Craig Oxbrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-57115655296321844662011-05-04T10:02:45.587-03:002011-05-04T10:02:45.587-03:00I wonder if Jenny will ever appear again.I wonder if Jenny will ever appear again.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-32910121797750992762011-05-04T09:24:57.607-03:002011-05-04T09:24:57.607-03:00That could be the fifteen-hour &quot;handy spare h...That could be the fifteen-hour &quot;handy spare hand&quot; window, or another example of the Doctor being really bad at regenerating compared to the average Time Lord. <br /><br />When I statted Jenny out for DWAITAS, I kept it ambiguous, because I felt that was what the show was doing.Craig Oxbrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-21840093594572232282011-05-03T15:44:49.063-03:002011-05-03T15:44:49.063-03:00For me, the most compelling evidence of Source vs....For me, the most compelling evidence of Source vs. regeneration is that Jenny DIDN&#39;T in fact regenerate. She healed/came back to life, but suffered no physical change.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-69941802158415602412011-05-03T13:56:09.541-03:002011-05-03T13:56:09.541-03:00Also, Jenny&#39;s regeneration/revival/Genesis Pla...Also, Jenny&#39;s regeneration/revival/Genesis Planet effect is just one of those deliberately-up-for-interpretation things. The Source energy looked <i>rather</i> regeneration-y if more green, and the Master&#39;s regeneration had a bit of green in there.Craig Oxbrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-71586736548979382442011-05-03T13:54:18.485-03:002011-05-03T13:54:18.485-03:00Amy (and Rory) weren&#39;t moved to curbstomp the ...Amy (and Rory) weren&#39;t moved to curbstomp the pre-broadcast Silents because the broadcast didn&#39;t include it in their subjective timelines until the Doctor added it.<br /><br />And other people are calling it the Black TARDIS? I thought that was just me using the blindingly obvious phrase.Craig Oxbrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16388821789251515974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-53050533085881253482011-05-02T21:50:26.423-03:002011-05-02T21:50:26.423-03:00I also don&#39;t really buy into that its Amy&#39;...I also don&#39;t really buy into that its Amy&#39;s dauther or the Doctor&#39;s. It doesn&#39;t really mesh it seems. There is this one theorie that the Doctor gets younger with each regeneration, so the little girl is an futur regenerated version of Doctor. Regenerated and got younger physically and mentally. Would explain why Amy is holding her in that picture.<br /><br />Green blast that kills the Doctor quite like his sonic screwdriver. Maybe killing his past self to fix something in the timeline. Meh. all really weird.Martin Légerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02823590081222080265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-50171840008801565742011-05-02T11:38:18.979-03:002011-05-02T11:38:18.979-03:00I was sure it happened again after the moon landin...I was sure it happened again after the moon landing, but I have certainly been wrong before.Darius Whiteplumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17950956139088139753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-904728600064742362011-05-02T11:36:04.387-03:002011-05-02T11:36:04.387-03:00Oh wait, you don&#39;t mean 2011 (the end that is ...Oh wait, you don&#39;t mean 2011 (the end that is the beginning), you mean at the end of Day of the Moon?<br /><br />Because there is no scene like that after the moonlanding.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-83005471101365511832011-05-02T11:28:34.245-03:002011-05-02T11:28:34.245-03:00Ah, but Amy saw it live... :-)Ah, but Amy saw it live... :-)Darius Whiteplumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17950956139088139753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-30884491108357945482011-05-02T11:22:04.707-03:002011-05-02T11:22:04.707-03:00Good question. We don&#39;t know what the original...Good question. We don&#39;t know what the original timeline was like. Maybe the Doctor DIDN&#39;T beat the Silents so roundly originally, and only manipulations seen here lead him to effect the Armstrong Gambit.<br /><br />Or maybe Amy has never seen the moon landing footage. It&#39;s possible.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-19403686056754779382011-05-02T11:06:27.959-03:002011-05-02T11:06:27.959-03:00I am no Who specialist, but wondered why at the en...I am no Who specialist, but wondered why at the end when Amy saw the Silent again on the horizon she did not want to kill it?Darius Whiteplumehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17950956139088139753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-18382301036243633732011-05-02T10:49:40.791-03:002011-05-02T10:49:40.791-03:00It all depends on what you want to believe is curr...It all depends on what you want to believe is current canon. It was a gift in the classic series (think of the Master being offered an extra 12 in The Five Doctors), but post-Time War, who knows. Maybe the TARDIS now imparts it. Or the Time Lords retrofitted all their genes somehow to make better soldiers. Anything&#39;s possible at this point (and the BBC has made a point of announcing the 12 regen limit is off). Who knows?Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-90124019288770832072011-05-02T10:44:16.274-03:002011-05-02T10:44:16.274-03:00I would say a)The Matrix conveniently didn&#39;t r...I would say a)The Matrix conveniently didn&#39;t revive any of the other dead on the planet (although there&#39;s a corkin&#39; good idea for a Dr. Who zombie story--a terraforming process that ends up raising the dead!). If you want to say that it was a unique interaction between her unique biology and the Matrix...I would require time and beer to formulate an adequate response.<br /><br />b) The Doctor did think that it was possible she might regenerate. Yeah, it was obviously mostly wishful thinking, but it would saeem to indicate that, on some level, he doesn&#39;t think it&#39;s a gift but an inherent biological property...snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181997862745538999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-820231952443222482011-05-02T10:03:36.891-03:002011-05-02T10:03:36.891-03:00Jenny didn&#39;t regenerate though. It&#39;s the e...Jenny didn&#39;t regenerate though. It&#39;s the ecosystem matrix energy healing her as it did the planet. Look at the scene again. The energy she breathes out is green rather than gold.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-86277944593709638902011-05-02T09:55:59.295-03:002011-05-02T09:55:59.295-03:00A couple of more questions:
**In TIA, River also ...A couple of more questions:<br /><br />**In TIA, River also &quot;felt a bit sick&quot; when she went underground. That can&#39;t be a coincidence. Is River pregant/not pregnant as well? Is it an effect the Silent have on women (or women time travellers, at least)?<br /><br />**The future Doctor (let&#39;s call him Doctor 1103)...where was his TARDIS? How much of what he said is true? Heck, is he even really the Docotr? An awful lot being taken on faith...<br /><br />**Re: regeneration being a gift. Ah, but what about The Doctor&#39;s Daughter? No gift there...maybe the child is, somehow, another reconbobulated clone-type thing. And an upcoming episode is entitled The Doctor&#39;s Wife, which almost seems to deliberately remind us of Jenny...snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181997862745538999noreply@blogger.com